Indicators for assessing infant and young child feeding practices: Part II Measurement

This document is a companion to the document Indicators for assessing infant and young child feeding practices. Part 1: Definitions published by the World Health Organization (WHO) and partners in 2008. It provides tools for the collection and calculation of the indicators. It is intended for use by managers of large-scale population-based surveys that will collect information on the status of feeding practices among infants and young children less than 2 years of age. This document is intended to be widely measured in countries to assess the coverage of effective feeding practices among young children and to progress in the implementation of the Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding